What are you currently reading?

[Lmartin5]

John Colter, his years in the Rockies!

This is next on my list!

 

[Sixmile]

Just finished these two.

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Irrelevant]

Almost through with The Secret Knowledge of Water, by Childress. A shockingly stark contrast in writing styles to Hemingway.

This a good book worth reading if you connect with the desert. There are pieces of exceptional writing. However, MOST of the writing is overly emotional nonsense; the author clearly trying too hard to be something or someone he's not.

A couple books back I read about a lost wilderness ranger in Sequoia national Park, in that book there were some letters to the ranger, an aspiring writer, from Wallace Stegner basically telling the kid that effort does not equal talent, and even talent takes a lot of practice to refine. Childress needed to take a writing class or two from Stegner.

It's still a very worthy read. Just try not to read someone as stark as Hemingway right before.

 

[JV842]

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My next one!!!

 

[Bighorner]

The brilliance Infinite Jest was wasted on me. I started Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. I like Capstick and it's an easy read. Good, not great.

 

[hank4elk]

Just ordered "The lost Cities of El Norte.
In depth history of Coranado and the early ventures into what became New Mexico, most of the west.
Good interview of author with Rinella.

 

[Hunting Wife]

I was only superficially familiar with the Donner Party story, and really loved this book. Painted a great picture of how things unfolded that led to them getting stranded and discussed some of the aftermath and what happened to the survivors. It seemed like a lengthy book but was a really easy read. I think I finished it in a weekend.


Finished this one last night. Roxie Leybourne developed the techniques to analyze and identify bird species from feather evidence and became the first forensic expert on feather analysis to investigate aviation accidents, murder cases, poaching and wildlife crime. She seems like she was a pretty intense lady. Interesting read.


Next up- found this one for $.25 at an estate sale. I’ve never read it, so figured why not?

 

[Irrelevant]

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I was only superficially familiar with the Donner Party story, and really loved this book. Painted a great picture of how things unfolded that led to them getting stranded and discussed some of the aftermath and what happened to the survivors. It seemed like a lengthy book but was a really easy read. I think I finished it in a weekend.

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Finished this one last night. Roxie Leybourne developed the techniques to analyze and identify bird species from feather evidence and became the first forensic expert on feather analysis to investigate aviation accidents, murder cases, poaching and wildlife crime. She seems like she was a pretty intense lady. Interesting read.

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Next up- found this one for $.25 at an estate sale. I’ve never read it, so figured why not?

It's the best. Only book I ever read twice in the same day

 

[INMT]

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Next up- found this one for $.25 at an estate sale. I’ve never read it, so figured why not?

Such a good book. It’s been 20+ years since I’ve read it. For .25 you won’t be disappointed. Quick read.

I’ll have to check out the other books posted.

 

[Southern Elk]

I like Krakauer’s writing. I’ve read Into the Wild a couple times. I’m over halfway through this one and I also have Into Thin Air that I may read next. This one is a collection of essays that were published as magazine articles.

 

[Bighorner]

All of Krakauer's books are good. Even topics you wouldn't topically consider are worth the read.